Urgent need to reorganize heart failure management: From paradoxes to heart failure clinics

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 179-184

  De Keulenaer, Gilles W ^a,b   Brutsaert, Dirk L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiac rehabilitation; Chronic heart failure; Heart failure clinic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; PATIENT CARE; PROGNOSIS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 19144364290     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.60.2.2005029     Document Type: Article

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